The Ubuntu version 22.04 LTS iso image for the server recently came out for the public, and I decided to spin it up in the VirtualBox hypervisor. So in this blog article, we will see how we can install Ubuntu 22.04 LTS server in VirtualBox step by step. After the installation, we will install the …
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We have covered plenty of blog articles related to the Ubuntu server in this blog. When the Ubuntu server 22.04 came out, I couldn’t wait to get my hand on, so I spun up the Ubuntu server 22.04 in the Proxmox VE server. So in this blog post, we will install Ubuntu server 22.04 on …
Ubuntu Server is one of the popular Linux servers available from Canonical. After Redhat killed centos, its popularity increased even more. People are starting to move from Centos to the Ubuntu server. We have covered extensive blog articles related to Ubuntu servers in the past. And in this blog, we will take a look at …
When you deploy a virtual machine in KVM, you connect the virtual machine to the default virtual network, acting as a NAT interface. As a result, your VM will be able to go out to the internet and get the updates, also the host machine can talk to the VM and vice versa. Later, when …
The VirtualBox guest additions are like a driver installed on a PC. It improves the virtual machine’s performance and allows easy usability of the virtual machine. In the last couple of blogs, we have taken a look at how you can install ubuntu desktop and Server on VirtualBox. In this blog, we will look at …
Ubuntu server is the common Linux operating system found in most server infrastructures. Maybe you want to run a web server in your environment and allow access to end-users. You could also use it as an FTP server, mail server, and so on. When I started with KVM, I initially installed the Ubuntu server on …
Virtualbox is one of the free, open-source hypervisors that you can run on pretty much all the operating systems out there. It doesn’t matter whether you have a windows machine, mac or Linux. The VirtualBox can run on all the devices irrespective of the operating system. We have covered how you can install Ubuntu Desktop …
We have covered how you can install the ubuntu-desktop 20.04 on the VMware workstation in our last blog. That was the desktop version of Ubuntu, so what about the Server? In this blog, we will take a look at how you can install Ubuntu server 20.04 on a Vmware Workstation. In the Ubuntu server, we …
We have taken a look at how you can install ubuntu 19.04 in our previous blog, and this time we are going to install ubuntu 20.04 on VMware workstation pro. I am also using Ubuntu 20.04 as my alternate operating system on my PC, where I did a dual boot of Ubuntu 20.04 with windows …
The other day I was trying to download Ubuntu iso images from the internet. But it turns out the time it took to download the file was so much, and I was not getting enough speed while trying to download. I have an internet speed of 150Mbps, but I was getting around 1.5 to 2 …
I have been using windows 11 on my laptop for some time now, and the new changes on the operating systems are great. Most of the time, I use windows 11 as my primary operating system. However, I use Linux as my second operating system. When I say Linux, I mean Ubuntu Linux. If you …
We have created multiple VLAN interfaces in Ubuntu using netplan. And we are going to see how we can configure routing via VLAN interfaces using netplan. And all the VLAN interfaces are working fine and able to ping the default gateways in our previous VLAN tagging configurations. Below is the topology that we are going …
The bridge interface in Linux is a virtual switch, and you can create multiple bridge interfaces that can connect to the VM’s under Libvirt. Maybe you can have bridge interface 100 that represents VLAN 100 that can be connected to some VM’s and bridge interface 200 that represents VLAN 200 for another set of VM’s. …
It’s quite common to see in a network environment that multiple interfaces are connected to the network devices for redundancy. In the event of one of the links ever goes down, the remaining links would take care of the traffic. Bonding with LACP on netplan Bonding is a way to club multiple interfaces as one …
Ever since Ubuntu changed its network configuration utility to netplan from the traditional configuration, many of them got so upset. Some of them are very annoyed that they even entirely removed the netplan and installed ifupdown back into the system. So is Ubuntu Netplan going to stay ?, if yes shouldn’t we learn how to …
Ubuntu is one of my favorite Linux distros, but I love windows 10 as well. I used one of my windows machines as my main operating system, as I also needed Ubuntu. I used to virtualize Ubuntu on a VMware workstation. It was going well until I decided to use GNS3 on my windows machine. …
If you have a Linux machine (Ubuntu, Centos, Redhat) running in your environment and you would want to configure them as an NTP server it is pretty easy. In our last blog, we took a look at what is NTP and how to configure the public and private NTP servers using network routers. In this …
If you’re using Ubuntu Dekstop or server, and one day you decided to change the IP address of your ubuntu machine from automatic (DHCP) to static configuration. how do you achieve that? If you are using Ubuntu with GUI, it is pretty straightforward, but what if you don’t have GUI and the only option that …
If there is no SNMP protocol, monitoring the Network hosts would have been difficult tasks for the admins. SNMP is a protocol that helps you identify the host availability with many parameters such as network health, hardware resources such as CPU utilization, memory storage, etc. In this blog, let’s discuss how to configure SNMP on …
I love Ubuntu, especially when I wanted to work with python programming, But I also love windows 10 because of its GUI and the vast variety of software support. In the last blog, I covered how you can install windows 10 on Centos/Redhat KVM. But in this tutorial I going to cover the Debian derivative …
I have a CentOS machine but there are times I would wanted to switch from CentOS to Ubuntu, how do I do that ? You can have a dual boot with both the Centos and the Ubuntu but if you wanted to switch from Centos to Ubuntu then you would have to shut down the …
There are a few features that are not available out of the box in Ubuntu. One such feature is SSH. If you ever install Ubuntu desktop on your machine and expect the ssh to work by default, it doesn’t. You would get an error message that says ‘The remote system refused the connection’ However, in the Ubuntu server …
I recently installed Ubuntu on my VMWare workstation pro, and I realized that I need to transfer some files from my windows host machine to the Ubuntu Guest OS and vice versa. There are many ways you could transfer files from linux to windows . Lets look at the simple and easiest ways to transfer …
When you are a network engineer or a developer, you may want to test your skills in a virtual environment rather than playing with your machine or production environment. Because you never know what could go wrong. What is VMware Workstation pro? VMWare workstation pro is a Software program that would let you install different …
I was working on a topology where I had to add a Ubuntu desktop client to simulate the end-user machine. I tried to install Ubuntu on the KVM hypervisor. Downloaded the Ubuntu ISO file, moved the Ubuntu-desktop ISO file to /var/lib/libvert/images folder on the KVM server I was working on. Selected network configuration and started …